Transferring .htaccess and .htpasswd Files to the Server

[gpsblues]

Hi!

I’m currently working on a site with some password-protected pages using .htaccess and .htpasswd.

For deployment, I wanted to keep copies of these files in the root directory, so I placed them in Tools/File Manager/root directory.

However, I noticed that during FTP upload, only the .htaccess file gets transferred. I don’t believe the server is blocking .htpasswd, as I can upload it directly via an FTP client without any issues.

Is this a limitation or a security setting in Publii?

Thanks a lot!

[dziudek]

@gpsblues - Publii has no such limitations during upload - do you have anything suspicious in your deployment logs regarding this file?

[bttrx]

@dziudek Same here.

Publii 0.46.2 (build 16966) ignores all files with a leading ., except .htaccess. These files are added to the output directory, but not to files.publii.json.

The offending line is:

Publii/app/back-end/modules/deploy/deployment.js

Line 557 in 443986c

if(file.indexOf('.') !== 0 || file === '.htaccess' || file === '_redirects') {

file.indexOf('.') !== 0 checks whether the filename does not start with a dot. This excludes hidden files.

[bttrx]

@dziudek Would you mind to add .htpasswd to the whitelist? (Maybe also needs changes at other places.)

[dziudek]

@bttrx - you're right - I have totally forgot about this fragment :) Thank you for spotting this - I will add a fix in v.0.46.3

[bttrx]

@dziudek Also reported as a bug in #1565.